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Under the Egyptian Sky: Jewish Poets in Interwar Cairo

When considering the literature that Jews of the Middle East and North Africa wrote in the first half of the twentieth century, one tends to think either of Iraqi Jewish authors, such as Anwar Shaul, or Sephardic writers from British Mandate Palestine, like Yiṣḥaq Shami and Yehuda Burla. In the case of Jewish writers of…

March 17, 2019 Continue to read
Books & Media, Culture, Ḥakhamim, World

Maimonides and the Merchants

The advent of Islam in the seventh century brought profound changes to the Middle East and to the Jews living there. The unification through Islamic conquest of the formerly warring great empires of Christian Byzantium and Zoroastrian Persia opened up vast territories for long-distance exchange of goods within a single realm. For Jews, the predominantly…

March 3, 2019 Continue to read
Books & Media, Culture

From Heritage to the Construction of a Collective Memory of the Moroccan Jewish Diaspora

In the works of Moroccan Jewish writers, authors, philosophers, and filmmakers, aspects are presented that illustrate a sense of double- or pluri-belonging, both to an abandoned homeland and to a new country of immigration; be it Israel, the mythical dreamt-of homeland; or, be it a foreign adopted country, devoid of any mythical connotations. Jews, originating…

February 17, 2019 Continue to read
Food

Luqmat: A Little Fritter with a Long History

Luqmat. Bumuelos. Sfenj. ʿAwwamé. Lokma. Zvingous. So many names for one deep-fried dough ball. How did these little-yeasted fritters—whatever you want to call them—spread all across the Mediterranean? And how did they become the preeminent Ḥanukka treat of the Sephardi world, from Morocco to Turkey? According to culinary historian Gil Marks in his Encyclopedia of…

December 4, 2018 Continue to read
Culture, Halakha

Two Shamoshim: The Spanish Personalization of Ḥanukka in Post-Expulsion Aleppo

For many Jews across the world, a central element of Ḥanukka is the kindling of fire throughout the eight nights of the holiday. While many of us—Sephardic and Ashkenazic alike—are familiar with the method of lighting taught by Hillel, one Sephardic community explicitly deviates from this widespread custom. For Spanish Jews who arrived in Aleppo…

December 2, 2018 Continue to read
Culture

What Can a Census Tell Us about Sepharadim in America?

From the Book of Genesis to 23andMe, Jews have always been irresistibly drawn to the practice and study of genealogy. Whether filling out a family tree, finding lost relatives, or hoping to reveal some long-hidden chapter of one’s ancestry, genealogy and genetic testing have given individuals a more concrete and biologically-based grasp on their place…

August 19, 2018 Continue to read
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